It’s been a very long time coming … and now we’ve got a title for Taylor Swift’s twelfth album. The brand new work, The Lifetime of a Showgirl, was introduced through a video clip from the upcoming Wednesday, Aug. 13, episode of Travis and Jason Kelce’s podcast, New Heights. It was shared on Instagram at 12:12 a.m. ET on Tuesday, Aug. 12, as a nod to Swift’s twelfth album.
Within the clip, Swift exhibits the brothers a briefcase, which is mint inexperienced with the letters T.S. on it.
“That is my brand-new album, The Lifetime of a Showgirl,” the singer declared.
The album cowl has not but been revealed, and Swift’s web site exhibits solely a blurred orange and inexperienced picture with a lock on the duvet. Nevertheless, followers can already preorder the vinyl, cassette and CD editions.
The Empire State Constructing in New York Metropolis turned orange in celebration.
To this point there isn’t any observe listing for the album, so followers should keep tuned. There may be additionally no launch date: Although the web site states preorders will ship on Oct. 13, it additionally stated that an official date will likely be introduced at a later time.
Eagle-eyed Swifties first seen one thing was within the works with the Eras Tour icon on Aug. 11, when Taylor Nation — the official platform for all issues Swift — took to social media to share a publish that includes 12 pictures of Swift, all in the identical shade of orange. The caption of the publish was “Occupied with when she stated ‘See you subsequent period …’” together with a pink coronary heart surrounded by orange flames.
In the meantime, Swift’s boyfriend, Travis Kelce, introduced that Swift can be the shock visitor on his and his brother Jason Kelce’s New Heights podcast episode dropping on Wednesday. The brothers initially hinted that Swift might be becoming a member of them in a publish Monday afternoon that featured Travis in Swift merch with a glittery orange background, which followers caught on to right away.
The twelfth album marks Swift’s first new music launch since asserting that she formally owns her first six albums after a prolonged battle over her grasp recordings. The artist started a rerecording venture after she realized in 2019 that her masters had been bought to Scooter Braun in opposition to her will. Swift went on to launch enormously profitable “Taylor’s Variations” of her 2008 album, Fearless; her 2010 album, Converse Now; her 2012 album, Purple; and her 2014 album, 1989, and now owns the unique works as properly.
“To say that is my best dream come true is definitely being fairly reserved about it,” Swift wrote in a letter to followers posted on her web site when she bought her masters. “All I’ve ever wished was the chance to work exhausting sufficient to have the ability to at some point buy my music outright with no strings hooked up, no partnership, with full autonomy.”
Whereas followers had been initially anticipating rerecordings of her 2006 self-titled album and her 2017 album, Popularity, to be amongst her subsequent releases, Swift as an alternative seems to be specializing in making new music.
